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- "A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one ..."
- "A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "
- "A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn. "
- "A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every ..."
- "A wise traveler never despises his own country. "
- "Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical education, and is not made ..."
- "As is our confidence, so is our capacity. "
- "Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they ..."
- "Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our ..."
- "Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. "
- "Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to ..."
- "Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - ..."
- "Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We ..."
- "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. "
- "Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. "
- "Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we ..."
- "Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, ..."
- "Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. ..."
- "Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the ..."
- "General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude ..."
- "Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. "
- "Good temper is an estate for life. "
- "Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. "
- "Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "
- "Grace in women has more effect than beauty. "
- "Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. "
- "Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. "
- "He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever. "
- "He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. "
- "Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. ..."
- "I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like ..."
- "I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. "
- "I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I ..."
- "I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton ..."
- "If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, ..."
- "If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If ..."
- "If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. "
- "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. "
- "It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able ..."
- "It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born ..."
- "It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, ..."
- "Learning is its own exceeding great reward. "
- "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal ..."
- "Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all ..."
- "Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency ..."
- "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of ..."
- "No truly great man ever thought himself so. "
- "No truly great person ever thought themselves so. "
- "No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should ..."
- "One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. "
- "People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they ..."
- "Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "
- "Prejudice is the child of ignorance. "
- "Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. "
- "Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains ..."
- "Rules and models destroy genius and art. "
- "Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. "
- "Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. "
- "Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. "
- "That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. ..."
- "The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. "
- "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure ..."
- "The busier we are the more leisure we have. "
- "The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or ..."
- "The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their ..."
- "The incentive to ambition is the love of power. "
- "The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the ..."
- "The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it ..."
- "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the ..."
- "The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires ..."
- "The more we do, the more we can do. "
- "The most learned are often the most narrow minded. "
- "The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and ..."
- "The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of ..."
- "The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. "
- "The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never ..."
- "The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. "
- "The public have neither shame or gratitude. "
- "The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest ..."
- "The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of ..."
- "The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small ..."
- "The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit ..."
- "The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less ..."
- "The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ..."
- "There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! "
- "There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have ..."
- "There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may ..."
- "There is no more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the ..."
- "There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from ..."
- "There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than ..."
- "They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. "
- "Those who can command themselves command others. "
- "Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of ..."
- "Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, ..."
- "Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. "
- "To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue ..."
- "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with ..."
- "To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. "
- "We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with ..."
- "We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. "
- "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "
- "We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their ..."
- "We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing ..."
- "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. "
- "You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures ..."
- "Zeal will do more than knowledge. "
